The award is administered for the Truman Capote estate by the
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. The $50,000 award is the largest
cash prize for literary criticism in the English language.
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1996
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Helen Vendler, The Given and the Made |
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1997
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John Felstiner, Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew |
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1998
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John Kerrigan, Revenge Tragedy |
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1999
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Charles Rosen, Romantic Poets, Critics, and Other Madmen
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2000
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Elaine Scarry, Dreaming by the Book; Philip Fisher,
Still the New World |
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2001
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Malcolm Bowie, Proust Among the Stars |
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2002
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Declan Kiberd, Irish Classics |
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2003
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Seamus Heaney, Finders Keepers: Selected Prose
1971–2001 |
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2004
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Susan Stewart, Poetry and the Fate of the Senses |
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2005
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Angus Fletcher, A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy,
the Environment, and the Future of Imagination |
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2006
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Geoffrey Hartman, The Geoffrey Hartman Reader |
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2007
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William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts |
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2008
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Helen Small, The Long Life |
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